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2 years ago

Reputation Costs of Overconfidence

Michael Toebe · Confidence is vital to success, as long as it’s balanced with a high level of sincere humility, character and competence. Overconfidence, however, is transparent to other people and results in a negative perception and judgment about us, our name and reputation. · So why do we no ...

3 years ago

Leaning In With Friends When Their Judgment and Behavior is Poor

Michael Toebe · “Some people lean in when their friends take heat, some people lean away. · “I decided I wanted to be a lean-in type, even if I didn’t always agree, even if it was their fault.” · Ryan Holiday · There is so much being communicated here and it’s important to recognize what is and ...

3 years ago

Responding Well When Stressed After Being Criticized

Michael Toebe · "What do you do when someone gives you critical feedback? · "It feels like someone is telling you: You’re wrong. · "How do you react?" · Who hasn't experienced that powerful, stressful, maybe negative human interaction. It doesn't feel good. It can hurt or disable. It might anger ...

3 years ago

I Know You Only by Your Reputation

Michael Toebe · Sometimes the obvious is not something we easily learn and remember. · I was watching a movie last night where the lead character spoke about how we might only be known by our reputation. · Why is this important? · Whether as individuals or organizations, there are people with wh ...

3 years ago

People are Convinced About Their Views About You

Michael Toebe · It feels good to be confident, to believe and know you’re accurate in your assessments, to feel “I’m right.” It’s worthwhile to remember when you think of critics and especially when those same critics are acting as enemies. · Humans crave the psychological reward of confidence s ...

3 years ago

Repairing Reputation With a Client After Making a Big Error

Michael Toebe · How do you repair your reputation with a client if you’ve made a significant error? · Paul · Hi Paul, · That you’re asking shows a lot about the quality of your character. · What your client likely desires is that you take prompt and full ownership of the significant error, offer ...

3 years ago

Reputation Story and Why it’s Important Inside Organizations

Michael Toebe · Organizations may not know the story they’re telling with their actions yet it’s important to be aware of exactly what that reputation story is in the minds of other people, not only external to the organization but inside it. · A story is always being told, fluid and being notic ...

3 years ago

Disagreement for Smarter Decisions

Michael Toebe · Power of Disagreement for Smarter Decisions · by Michael Toebe · “Find the most believable people possible who disagree with you and try to understand their reasoning.” · Ray Dalio · Co-chief investment officer · Bridgewater Associates · It isn’t common to seek out others to disa ...

3 years ago

Why We’re Pained When We Need to Think Deeply — a Conversation

Michael Toebe · Red Diamonds Features is an interview-rich publication that converses on topics of communication, decision making, behavior, conflict, trust, courage, resilience and courage and reputation and crisis. · “Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” · Martin Luther King J ...

3 years ago

Eighteen Years of Accomplishments and a Reputation Shattered

Michael Toebe · Nearly two decades of accomplishments and leadership have ended in reputation ruin for Markus Braun, CEO of Wirecard. His name and career, broken by scandal, created intense negativity and pressure to resign, which he finally did. · As is common with scandal, crisis and reputatio ...

3 years ago

Reputation is Also About the “How”

Michael Toebe · This Red Diamonds Features issue examines the important question of reputation and what it also consists of, what makes it what it is. Is it solely success as the world defines it or is it the “how” that matters, or both? · Six wise voices have reached out with their viewpoints o ...

3 years ago

University Professor Wants to be Fired and Humiliated

Michael Toebe · When your pattern of behavior is discourteous, disrespectful and arrogant, or in other words, out of control and unrestrained, and you act as if you are beyond consequences, you are in essence flipping off people, especially your enemies. · You can only defy the odds for so long. ...

3 years ago

Successful Leadership Through Uncertainty

Michael Toebe · (Madhu Jeyakumaran, founder and director of Think Stride) · Psychologically we value certainty. It can help provide relief from stress. Yet as leaders, certainty is not always present. Then what happens? Depending on our experiences with uncertainty and our personality, we react ...

3 years ago

Errors May Not Permanently Be Forgotten and Buried

Michael Toebe · The teeth of our errors of judgment often are still sharp today. · Comedian Jimmy Fallon would likely agree to that statement.  · He is working his way through a reputation crisis that although likely not to cause him career pain long term, might leave him suffering with remorse ...

3 years ago

It's Possible Your Reputation is so Terrible You Can't Legally Protect It

Michael Toebe · (Ron Darling and Lenny Dykstra, image courtesy of ESPN) · Imagine for a moment that your reputation is so filthy that you are unable to protect it in a court of law against published incendiary claims. How painful does that sound? It's quite possible. Just ask Lenny Dykstra. · Th ...

3 years ago

Why Do We Self Sabotage

Michael Toebe · Why do we as individuals struggle with self sabotage and why do some well-known organizations do as well? The question is worth examining. · This feature is an intellectual brief in a conversational format. · Gratitude to Wendy B. Dickinson, Jill M. Sammak and Jasmine Menser-Lust ...

3 years ago

Better Understanding and Practicing Resilience

Michael Toebe · Resilience seems to be an fuzzy, abstract word. There are long lists of quotes on what it is, aimed at educating and inspiring us. Knowing how we can best become resilient is more complex. Maybe if we learned what it is and what specifically to do, we’d increase the odds of succe ...

3 years ago

Mayor doesn't recognize the risk of his beliefs over Floyd death until after he communicates them

Michael Toebe · Communication discipline is a critical skill for people in a position of leadership if its important to them to build or retain credibility, trust and reputation. One Southern mayor, triggered emotionally, either forgot that truism or never learned. · Hal Marx, the mayor of Petal ...

3 years ago

Success in Breaking Free and Moving on from Problematic Habits

Michael Toebe · Unhelpful or self-limiting habits can be quite difficult to shake, break, leave and move on from yet there are answers in our psychology that can prove to be the key to needed progress or desired success. · “My understanding of habits is based on the proven insights from Stages o ...

3 years ago

Say What? - A Reputation Error in Judgment and Communication

Michael Toebe · Bryan Adams, say what? · “Tonight was supposed to be the beginning of a tenancy of gigs at the @royalalberthall, but thanks to some f***ing bat eating, wet market animal selling, virus making greedy bastards, the whole world is now on hold, not to mention the thousands that have ...

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